The Morning Stream - TMS 2070: Dude Ways

Episode Date: February 18, 2021

Schmidt Happens! The Dog Exploded, or I need your EIN number. A Canadian, with the Yellow Pages, in the Nightstand. I'll take reversing the polarity of the warp core for 200, Geordi. Mystic River Or Pizza? There's Poop Potatoes! Cut the Feed! Tik Tok Teens Try Troubling Trend. 49.99$ Per Month! Deal's Off!! The dog exploded on my pile! He's a Delicious Honey Baked Ham. The 12 Phone Numbers of Prince Edward Island. Planetino and the Starlettes. The Offending Half Inch. Ghost Waffle Flavor. The Seven Minutes Of Terror With Bobby. Therapy Thursday and more on this episode of The Morning Stream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Coming up on TMS, Schmidt happens. The dog exploded or I need your EIN number. A Canadian with the yellow pages in the nightstand. I'll take reversing the polarity of the warp drive for 200, Jordy. Mystic River or pizza. There's poop potatoes. Cut the feed. TikTok teens tried tumbling. Oh, shit.

I was sure I'd get this. Here we go. TikTok teens trying troubling trend. Good enough. $49.99, no, $49.99 sign per month deals off. The dog exploded on my pile. He's a delicious. Honeybaked ham.

The 12 phone numbers of Prince Edward Island. Planetino and the starlets. The offending half inch. Ghost waffle flavor. The seven minutes of terror with Bobby. Therapy Thursday and more on this episode of

The Morning Stream. It is a new thing. It is a washing cream. You wash your face with it. It makes your face feel nice and fresh and clean and nice and soft and smooth and not dry and not greasy. If dad performs a few of these gyrations while the family

is having breakfast, there could be a trailer load of trouble. The morning stream. Oh, the new health and fitness section? I'm not sure, but I'll find out if I could use your phone. Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to what is the morning stream. for Thursday, February 18th, is it? Yep. Is this a Jeopardy category? What is the morning stream?

What is the morning stream? Ding, ding, ding, ding, and it's our daily double. They don't have a permanent new host for that, do they yet? No, they're still trying people out. Do you think, I mean, I know Ken Jennings did the temporary guesty thing. Do you think he's in the running or no? I never, you know what? I never saw any of Ken Jennings guest host episodes, but,

Just knowing Ken's style, I don't feel like he's got the, the gravitas to be the permanent host. But I need, you know what? I'm saying that unfairly. I'm saying that without actually seeing his performance at it. The person, if you know, if you're going to pull a goat out of retirement, not even really retirement, but get Brad Rudder. Rudder is the of all of the top jeopardy players he is the showman he is the the ham and um i mean that in both the sense that he's kind of a lovable dufous ham but also he looks like john ham with a beard like a skinny john ham that you're going to say he's like a delightful dinner menu item he's like

a delicious honey baked ham lovely yeah i don't know they got to decide soon though don't think is they have a season coming up. I don't know. I mean, they could do whatever they want, right? They could just keep circulating host for a whole season. That's true. I guess they don't have to... But I feel like they need some permanence. They need somebody to just... There's a lot of talk about Lovar Burton. I don't know if

that was for real. They were really considering that. Oh, Lovarton would be a great one. Would you wear the Jordie glasses? The Jordie visor? I would assume they'd make him. He'd have to. The answer is di-lithium crystals. Again. Again, every answer on the board is to lithium crystals.

Like, I can't see anything, so you'll have to tell me what's up there. Who said that? Who buzzed in? Yeah, who was that? Well, I hope they figured out, and it's a good call because it's a hell of a legacy to try to fill that thing. And I don't envy them

having to do this. There's a hard work over there at the... Oh, Begiris 74 says he's been doing it for like two months. Who? Jennings has? Not Keenan Thompson. Jennings has? Oh, maybe he is to... Really? Keenan Thompson has been?

Shut up. Kenan Thompson, really? No. I mean, I would take it. People need to you. The pronouns are hurting us, man. Cut it out with the pronouns. Yeah, quit with the pronouns.

Let's get into the... Give me names. Give me some magic things. They act like the show is not on every night. What are you talking about? Bagheera 74, man. Give me some verbs. Get some verbs in there.

First he throws shade on Brad Rutter, which I will not stand for. Yeah. Ooh, Will Ferrell, bring him in. just have him do an impression. That's fantastic. A terrible idea. Terrible idea. Anyway, so we're back. We got a show today. It's Thursday. And we've got things to talk about. We'll have Wendy later.

Going to have a good topic with her. Got a fantastic mashup for the end of the show. We've got news. We've got all sorts of stuff today. Before we get too far. What were we supposed to watch with Wendy this week? Was there something? Yeah, six seasons of... New Girl? Were we supposed to watch New Girl?

Yes, New Girl. in two seasons of saved by the bell. So we can understand about us. We need all, we need, uh, what was his name on there? Who's the guy and new girl that I like? Schmidt. We need Schmidt. Yeah. Yeah. Jake. Oh, Schmidt. Schmidt's great. Yeah. We need some Schmidt. And then, uh, then we're good. And then Wendy will come in and tell us why Schmidt matters. Because Schmidt happens. Schmidt happens. Um, all right. I got a, another follow up on this thing that I won't let go. Okay. Dog with a bone. Yeah. Go ahead. hotel having phone books in them uh i've i've i've come to the conclusion and i have fully admitted

it is it is a dying breed if it exists at all like i'm i'm with you okay we called that hotel i'm not i'm not on that this is this is a slow dance in the end zone this isn't like a happy dance in the end zone this is a wistful like uh twirling yeah we we we have we've realized we've spelled chefs instead of chiefs is what i'm saying and uh okay googly movie yeah and it's fine That's so funny how that commercial stuck with everyone for so long. Totally. Well, I loved great googly-mugly back when Zappa said it in Nanook. Nanook eats the yellow snow.

What's the name of that song? Don't watch out where the husky's gone. Don't you eat that yellow snow? That's the song, but there's, I can't remember the name Nanook. I think it's just Nanook Eats it. Oh. I don't know. Or Nanook of the North.

Is that the name of the song? I know it's, but, you know, basically the middle of that song. Right before it goes into St. Alfonso's pancake. breakfast. He says, great, cugly mugli. Oh, that's right. Oh, okay. Now I can hear it now that you do it. All right. Well, anyway, so Alan Morrison wrote in. And this is a listener to the show. He says, hey, Scott, I'm an essential worker that travels several times a month for my work, even during the pandemic. And tonight, as I got comfortable in my hotel room, that I'm not allowed to leave except to go to work, I opened the desk drawer to find the local phone book right next to the Gideon Bible. Now, he sent us a picture of this. And, And this is what I see when I see it. And so why I like this is, even though I will admit, I think this is all a dying breed, and we're not going to see this for very much longer if we do it all, even in smaller chains, this is exactly what I'm looking at.

It's one of these smaller yellow pages, literally called yellow pages down there at the bottom, sitting next to the Bible in that drawer with your menu and your other business and your whatnot. That's my memory of every hotel I've ever been in. Clearly, I've overstated that. but this this gives me some this gives me some closure here this right here good oh thank god yeah yeah now we never have to talk about i know it i'm so glad it took the bustling metropolis of prince edward island uh because of all the doubt raised by that podunk city columbus ohio yeah no you're right we really we really brought it around uh he says this this isn't a big hotel

but choice hotels is an international brand and there's the book complete with the yellow pages I think this is going to be something I look at now as I travel, but I don't expect to ever use it, L-O-L-L. Alan. Well, that's exactly. I mean, you couldn't have illustrated this better, Alan. Like, no one uses it. If they still exist at all, it's like

a weird hang-on. Like, it's going away. There's nothing, I was curious. Like, there's nothing that says how current that phone book is. No. But it's funny because this one feels like

it's a travel brochure and a yellow pages. I mean, it is an official yellow pages. This isn't like a Chamber of Commerce. Here's some cool things to do in Prince Edward Island. And while you're at it,

here are the 12 phone numbers of every one of our businesses. Okay, I know Prince Edward Island is bigger than that. Sure. No, I take your point, though. That is the actual yellow pages. It's no Labrador by any stretch of the imagination.

Sure, sure. It's no New Brunswick. Yeah, no, I mean, what is, though? Haverfield and whatever the Springfield, the other Monorail cities that they mentioned in... But you're right, though. There's that logo, right? The little yellow logo. There's the logo in the bottom right corner.

So it's officially produced by Yellow Pages. Which I can't believe is still in business. How are they in business? How is that even a thing? Yeah, I don't know. I really don't know because this has to be so customized because it's not just yellow pages. According to the cover, it's like 50 plus. uh smart tips so it's like a magazine i can't i can barely tell like how how thick it is yeah that's the

other thing it looks like it's about about as thick as a as a crappy like dime store paperback novel like right yeah that's a good comparison i was thinking like a um like an expensive fashion magazine not not those cheap ones like cosmo or vogue but like those ones that that sits up on the upper back shelf at Barnes & Noble that's like $18 and is about that thick. Is there slogan in Prince Edward Island really where life is good? Is that what they say?

I guess. At least that's what Yellow Pages would have you believe. It easily could be this could be the same cover used for about a dozen New England small towns. Right? If you cross the border

or go down to the U.S., that lighthouse could easily be in Cape Cod or Mystic River or wherever, you know. Yeah, it could be anywhere. Is Mystic River a real place? I always thought it was just that movie. Yeah. No, no.

We actually, there even is a Mystic Pizza in Mystic River. And we've got, well, for the longest time, we had a pizza, um, what do they call it? Like a serving, uh, thing, right? Like, not a spatula, but it's angled like pizza shaped. I know what you mean. Um, whatever that's called. I'm sorry, not Mystic River.

It's just Mystic. Connecticut. Mystic River is a different movie, but Mystic Pizza, it takes place in Mystic, Connecticut, and there really is a Mystic Connecticut. Yeah, Mystic River, is that one word, oh, how did that work? It was Julia Roberts, um, it was

Anabeth Gish hooked up with the married man and then... Wait, that's pizza, right? Yeah, it's Mystic Pizza. Oh, I was talking River. Are you asking about how Mystic River? Yeah, River was a bunch of... That was like a child molestate, like these kids were, these guys were molested as kids or something, and they grew up. Sean Penn

Kevin Bacon Tim Robbins Tim Robbins He was the one that was in trouble That's right At the end That's a good That's a good movie

And I want to say Clint Eastwood made it Somebody like that made it Anyway Doesn't matter It was Clint Eastwood Nothing like Mystic Pizza Which I have never seen

Mystic Pizza ever in my life Oh well I just spoiled it Oh that's too bad And they make pizza You know the pizza was pretty good And it was that very same trip. So Tina and I went, my dad was living in, my dad and stepmom were living in New Haven at the time.

Yeah. And we flew out there. And they were both working when we arrived. So they basically set us up with a key and then said, yeah, when you take the taxi to the house, help yourself to the car. And you can go and check out, you know, go out to Mystic and do this, do that. So we went out to Mystic, Connecticut.

it. We looked around, we said, oh, this is really exciting. We were done in about 15 minutes, and then we went to the local theater where we saw the brand new movie, The Matrix. Oh, wow. So, circa 99? When we went there, yep, 1999.

99, yeah. Yeah. That was Neo and his friends, that movie. That's right. Neo and Friends. This is the original title of the movie. Yeah, the working title. Neo and Friends. Yeah. They had to finally come up with something cooler, but in the end, I think I might prefer it.

Anyway, thanks for that, Alan Morrison, and you've cleared things up for me, truly. Yes. Now this can finally be put to rest until Scott gets another email from somebody visiting San Bernardino and finds a yellow pages hastily stuffed into a drawer of their motel sex. Yeah, what I really want is somebody who works at Yellow Pages. I want somebody who knows the status of how things are going there. And then that's who I want to hear from next. Here's what it sounds like. I work for yellow pages.

Look at it as watch. Not sure how much longer could be any minute now. Do you have any jobs? I'm thinking about starting a podcast. Well, no offense to all your yellow page friends. All right. More podcasters. Yeah, or podcasters.

Those guys are fine. I think science is cool. I think science is cool as well. And we're going to talk about a little science. I have a big deal today in science. A certain planet in our solar system is about to get a visitor from Earth. And we have our old pal, Bobby Franks here to talk about it. Our science correspondent on Thursdays, Bobby Franks.

Bobby, welcome to the show. Hey, science correspondent in the field here. In the field, everybody. Mission control. I see it all behind you, the hustle and bustle of... Yeah, look at all these lights. People rushing around with papers and there's typewriters going. It's really intense stuff.

Anyway, hey, Bobby, welcome to the show. You're going to be watching this, I guess. The Mars landing. What are we actually doing? For those who are not familiar with what's happening, what is actually happening today? Well, NASA's latest Mars rover, perseverance, which, by the way, the biggest shock to me that I found out this week

is that that word is not pronounced perseverance. Oh. Oh. It's perseverance. Okay. That is news to be. me as well. Well, done. We've already learned something. Thank you. We've already learned something. You're right. Yeah. But that's landing today. Back in the summer of 2020, NASA launched that rover

into space towards Mars, and it's finally getting there today, and it's landing today. at a close to about 345, 355 Eastern time. And yes, we're going to watch it. Now, okay, so that brings up the big question for me, because I haven't been following this. I feel bad that I haven't, because I love this stuff normally, but it just hasn't been in my radar. How do they watch it? Are we getting camera feeds? Are we, like, what is the deal?

What do we get to see? Yes, so historically, we would just get a feed of data and then people would talk about it. But this is very different this time because we're actually going to get a live camera feed of all the things that are going on there. And it's very nerve-wracking because, so Mars is pretty far away. Yeah, it's a decent distance, sure. It's 12 light minutes away. That means light takes 12 minutes to get from where Mars is now to us. And many things travel at the speed of light.

most importantly, also the signals that you would use to control the rover. So that's important because once the rover hits Mars's atmosphere, it's only seven minutes until it gets to the ground, hopefully safely. And so everything, everything from the moment it hits the atmosphere to when it lands is completely automated. Oh, wow. And it's nuts. it's absolutely crazy because it's very complicated there's it's slowing down it's trying to got these thrusters adjusting where it's going to land and it's got a parachute that has to deploy

at the right time but then that only slows them down to a certain speed and they don't want to kick up a bunch of rocks and dust when they get there because that'll damage the rover so they've got this sky crane rocket contraction that has it hover like some hundred feet or something over the ground i'm saying something i've got like actual figures here somewhere They're using like the same parking assist that makes it so my Lexus can go into a parking space without me touching the wheel. Precisely the same. Yeah. Yeah, precisely the same.

It's designed by Toyota. That wouldn't be surprised. But anyway, all of that has to happen to lightly, gingerly drop, because it gets dropped down onto the ground from this rocket platform by wires to like gently drop the rover onto the surface of Mars. and it all has to happen automated, and everybody just gets to watch. And that's why they call it the seven minutes of terror. Because they just get to watch and hope it went right. And the really crazy thing is whether it lands safely or it crashes, hopefully it doesn't. But regardless of what happens, by the time we start watching all this, it's already done.

Like, it's already happened. We're just watching the feed as it gets to. Exactly. So basically we're watching the instant replay. So we're getting this 12, some pretty serious lag, but you're saying we'll see this like 12 minutes later or something after it's happened. Yes, yes. When we see it, it has already happened 12 minutes prior. Which is great.

I love that. For some reason, that messes with my head in a way that feels good. I can't explain why. Yeah. Let me ask you this. We're going to be watching it live, like you said, on the All Around Science Facebook page. So I want everyone here to watch with us. Oh, look at that.

Sure. What times it again to make sure they're all there? What is it? 3.30? We're starting the stream at 1 p.m. Eastern. So after this show, go get a snack, get some lunch. And then come back 1 p.m. Eastern. We're going to start. We're going to do a whole recording of this week's episode live on a stream. And then after the episode is done, it's going to be all about Mars. And after the episode recording is done, which is our first live stream for this show, then we're going to watch. some of the NASA footage and talk about some more rover stuff and then watch it live. Awesome. Let me ask you this. Is this thing? Oh, where on Facebook? We should probably

give them a little more specifics. It's a, you can find the event on all of, just go on Facebook and search all around science. We're going to do it Facebook live there. In fact, I didn't think about this until just now. Maybe I can recruit some better at social media people who are listening right now

to go and put it in like, share it in the tad pool. That'd be great. Yeah. I'm sure there are lots of people around there that would like to hang out. Yeah, someone will stick it in there. We already get a people in chat saying they've followed and they'll make sure to check it out. Now, today, my Amazon Echo told me that it's the anniversary of another planet discovery, which happened in 1930, coincidentally. Pluto was discovered on this day back in 1930.

Oh, back when we first called the planet and then later that wasn't one, and now we call it one. A mini planet. No, what is it? Planetino. Planetoid. Planetite. Planetitino. You can get those on the FOIA aisle at Target.

Yeah. Yes. Yeah, dwarf planet? It's funny because the other part that blew my mind was, since its discovery nearly 90 years ago, or actually over 90 years ago, to now, it still hasn't completed one orbit around the sun. Oh, wow. It was discovered, named.

planet demoted and kind of half promoted all in the space of like not even making one one of its Pluto years it's been a hell of a year for Pluto also now remember they like to be called little planets no longer dwarf planets little players thank you I appreciate yeah no problem we don't want to offend anybody and you say that it was this year hold on 1930 that's right exactly any excuse I have that might have been maybe that's what darrell was singing about you never know you never know well Bobby that's exciting Now, did they wrap this thing in a bunch of balloons like those ones where they bounce down and then slowly deflate and all that? I remember that. I know exactly what you're talking about. I've seen that footage, that concept footage, so many times over the years. I remember them doing that. No, they did not.

They did not do that. It's naked in the wind. Okay. All right. That's interesting because I thought that the, I thought that was the standard. Like, if you were going to send a rover or an object that would be on the ground on Mars, you wrapped it in the balloon bomber thing. And that was just a way of it. Until this sky crane was invented, that's what they did. And I think the last rover that got sent was it, I don't know, my brain sucks today. Spirit, opportunity, one of those ones. They did with a sky crane as well. Jocularity. That's my favorite was Jocularity. Jocularity.

Jocularity. That's the one going to learn all about Mars to tell Mars jokes. Right, right, jocularity. It would be pretty great, though, if, uh, uh, okay, let me ask you this. Let's get conspiratorial. All right, let's do it. The sky crane's doing its business. We're on a 12 minute delay, right?

We got major space lag going on. So we can't see what's happening until 12 minutes later. And also we're not going to see anything that isn't, the government doesn't see first. All right. NASA will see first. Sure. So what if this is the time where we see some kind of, you know, triple head. weird-looking creature down there that's watching this thing fall,

and they decide to cut the feed before the people see it. Or the creature cuts the feed. The creature sees it coming down, and then you see it come over and go, and then the feed's dead. Yeah, but they won't show us. They're never going to show us that. They won't show us Matt Damon down there.

They're not going to show us anything, right? Yeah, they don't want us to see the potato field. Oh, we think, cut the feed. Matt Damon's making poop potatoes. Fantastic. Well, this is going to be great. I'm excited to not only, I'm going to try to tune in to see you do this. First of all, second of all, I'm really curious about how this thing's going to go.

I love the intensity of it. And so far, the Mars program and rover programs have been very successful, like beyond their expectations successful. The things live way longer and are powered way longer than they expect them to. They communicate with them like, what was that one, 12, 15 years longer than they expected? Or something crazy like that? Yeah, and this one's got nuclear power, so that's nuts. That's cool, man.

And it's, it is nail biting because it's not nail biting in that like, ooh, is it going to crash kind of, you know, like you really don't expect. But not all Mars missions have been successful, and there haven't been that many. It's kind of hard to get things to Mars. So there's not an insignificant chance that this could go badly. But I think I'm confident that we're going to have another rover. It's going to hopefully find signs of life. This is the first time.

Another exciting thing, this is the first time it's collecting actual core samples of rocks and soil to have a later mission come and collect them. Oh, wow. And bring them back. That's never, this is the first time anybody's ever done that. And we're going to talk a lot about that on our show recording. But that's exciting. You know what I wish they'd do. Here's what they should do.

They should make Elon Musk fly over there. Yes. And do the pickup. And when he does it, he has to do it on the way. He has to do it on a 12-minute camera delay. And he has to pick up each rock with his butt cheeks and put him in a box. That's a lot. That makes a lot of sense.

I know exactly why you would suggest that. Oh, of course. Look, I'm a fan, you know. I want to see Musk go as far as he can go. Well, this is great. Check it out today. Go search for all-around science, rather, on, Facebook and you'll find the

live stream, follow it, and when it goes live, you can be there and check it out. Bobby, anything else you want to mention? No, just come on out and support us on the live stream. It's our first one, and we hope to do more, so come hang out. Sounds good to me. Go support science.

And Bobby Frankenberger. We'll see you next time. See Bobby. Okay. Well, we did it. Let me close this photo of the big balloon things. I don't need that up anymore. the balloon drop yeah it's gonna be uh i'm actually very excited about this i'm i'm i'd like it when there's big nassan movements moments or space x or anybody where i feel like it's the best

distraction from planet problems that we can have because it's like yeah the middle of the country's frozen and nobody can do anything and yeah there's fires wherever and yeah yeah yeah yeah like all this stuff political this and that but for just a second we get to go oh yeah we're just this small blue dot. We got other things out there. Let's go do cool exploratory things. I like, I wish we did more of that. Some people would say, well, we shouldn't bother with that. We've got our own problems.

Yeah, but you've got to reach, man. We're humans. We've got to reach out. Exactly. I'm not opposed to the space for us. I think it needs a better name, but I feel like we need, we need attention to

the outside, thinking outside our globe, outside our little blue dot. Yeah, but aren't those guys, they're just military, though, right? Space Force? Well, yeah, I mean, I want more. Yeah, exactly. Maybe Space Force isn't the right thing. I want more, more exploration, more, more leaving the Earth and finding out what else might be out there. Yes. I guess I'm not looking at blowing, blowing aliens up if they happen to swing by and say, hey, what's going on?

Get him! Yeah, yeah. Pugh, p, p, p, all right. Let's get to the news today and begins with this little, uh, transition. Time to do the news. Brought to you by. Brought to you by Coverville.

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oh no you're using with the mac you're using with the M1 so you've got the little HD 60 Yes, I can, I use that to capture game stuff when I need. And I can use that on PC or Mac. Either one works. Right, right, right. And you've probably got the plus, correct?

HD60 plus. I think I do. Is that the difference? The plus is the difference. Yeah, I've done little research online. You have to go through a lot of hoops to get it working. So basically what I'm going to be doing is pulling it up in game center or game capture. And then pulling that window into stream labs.

But I do have a plus on order. So if somebody with a PC who wants to do some streaming wants to buy this, this HD60, email me. We'll talk. Let Brian know. It still works. It's a functional. It works great. And, you know, if you don't have the Mac Silicon needs like I do, then it's a great streaming box.

A lovely device. It is. Anyway, so, uh, Mountain, Twitch.tv, slash Carverville today at 1 p.m. Mountain Time. Very nice. All right. Let's do this story that we should all be aware of. of TikTokers are always, they're almost worse than YouTubers now with their trends. And so they go, hey, there's a new trend where we stuff an entire elephant up our butts.

Let's all try it or whatever. And then they fail and ha-ha. And then they move on to another trend. Well, there's a new one. The full face hot wax trend has, has TikTok now prompting warnings to anybody who wants to try this. So they show this softened resin covered subject. face, their mouth, their neck, partially penetrated their eyes, ears and nose, rather, before they're being removed.

A barber posted some of the most watched examples and says it's beneficial, that's good for your skin, blah, blah, blah. So this is a thing. Chat, we have some pictures here. I mean, okay, so like those little pore, you know, they've got those Euree poor cleanser pads that you stick on and then pull off. Yeah. That seems okay, but this is friggin' hot wax.

This isn't like, you know, it's like the difference between a post-it and duct tape. Yeah, I agree. I think it's a little, I mean, look at that. I'm looking at these photos and... It's horrible. God. I don't want to do this to myself. No.

No. It looks horrendous. Also, look, they've got pretty sure they have some of that up their nose. I've done the hot wax and the nose thing before. Yeah, have you? That was a horrendous mistake. My sister-in-law was saying, you should do this. And I'm like, I don't want to do it.

She's like, I'll do it for you. I'll just pull it out. You'll never know. And I have video of this somewhere, but she went to yank it out. And it didn't work. And it hurt. Oh, that's like when the electric chair doesn't fully kill the prisoner. Yes.

It's cruel and unusual. But it's like, it's no half measures on that business. Yeah, that's a great, great comparison. If you're going to do it, you got to do it. You know. And if it doesn't work, what are you doing? Well, anyway, but the British Association of Dermatologists says this is bad. Also, that's their nickname, Bad, British Association of...

The British Association of Dermatologists. Yeah, they're bad. Anyway, they said to attempt to wax inside your nose and ears is not recommended. The UK-based skin special said they also raise safety concerns by the risk of obstructing breathing. And one expert suggests a TikTok should add a warning. And they do this a lot. TikTok will add like a little thing at the bottom that'll say, like that's a fail video and it'll say this sort of thing

causes bodily injury or whatever. They do this all the time. Or if there's a somebody does a post about election results, they'll have a link and a thing at the bottom saying more information about the United States 2020 election results or something. So they do this all the time. I wouldn't be surprised if they did it here or started deleting videos. But here's one of the reasons. At least this is what my doctor told me.

It says don't get the nose wax, ear wax things. there's a reason you got little hairs in those holes. Yes. It's protection of like dust and things like that that... Particulets. That goes through the air. Yes. Viruses including...

It's a filter. I'm not saying you're going to not get coronavirus because of your nose hairs, but you're going to definitely... You're going to lose at least one layer of protection if you don't have your freaking nose hairs. And I know there are people going, well, I need... I'm doing up-face selfies and I need to have a perfect noteful. Just get a little trimmer, a little Panasonic

like $10 trimmer, and then clears that thing out and doesn't get rid of all of it, just gets rid of the offending extra half inch that you don't need. That's right. So is TikTok really, you know, could TikTok,

let's get the old conspiracy head on. Would TikTok be something that was created by the government to control population? I don't know, by creating maybe. Creating fads that

you know kill a certain dumb percentage of people and uh well maybe maybe that's the chinese government's way of doing it whereas our version is already youtube right tidepods and all that so maybe social media video is designed to do that TikTok there we go okay that's it that's it that I figured it out yeah excellent we're gonna thin that herd thin that herd baby uh all right what else is I'm gonna read about this oh TikTok teens uh oh I gotta say something funny so this little goatee I got going these days prior to this I had a lot of growth on the sides and stuff and that's why I ended up with the goatee was almost a joke

and Kim's like oh I like it you should keep it so I kept it but I shaving the sides first and man if you haven't shaved in a while if you've let things go for a bit you haven't noticed just how much ear hair you got going because when I got rid of this I looked in the mirror and I'm like oh my gosh I'm like Uncle Jack levels of ear hair going and I had to go in there with like a freaking full on

head shaver thing and just get into there and get it out. It's the time to braid this? Oh, my God. Yeah. So don't. What I'm saying is don't do that. The wax thing I'm saying. Don't do that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just trim. Don't do it. Trim. We like you to trim. We don't want you to. I don't look like Colonel Sanders. Why does everyone keep saying that?

I do not look like Colonel Sanders. Do I? Is it these glasses? I'm wearing the horn rims. They're throwing people off. Here, I'm taking these off. I don't want to be the chicken, cake. I don't take a nice, tender, juicy chicken. I don't want to look like him. That was not the goal. That was not my intent. I'm going to start coloring this like Brian.

I'm going to make this all purple or something down here. There you go. Yeah. I tried the purple. It just didn't show up well. Yeah. Well, it looks good now, whatever you're using. Yeah, you know, it's funny.

I haven't done in about a week. So it's all, this is all coasting. Nice. Do it for a little while. I could go up hill and then on the downside, you just coast for a little bit. Is it that stuff you have to remind me? Is it, you put it in and it's just shampoo, yeah, it's just a, um, it's called color retain or something like that, even though it's, um, it's, um, not really retaining. It's adding color. And you just got to be careful to get a lot, like, do with the palm of your hand. So that, because if you use your fingertips, uh, your fingernails, uh, you're thinking it'll start turning black. Oh. Which is fine. If you're goth, you know, it's great. Yeah. No. Yeah. Got people usually don't have gray beards. No. Is a, is a, is there a version of goth now today? are there kids that are just like all black and chains and oh sure yeah yeah and i saw

tina i saw somebody um over the weekend we were driving somewhere and um i said oh look it's it's lydia she's uh finally broken away from uh hanging out with beetle juice she liked and i said and she actually looks great like i said that's such a good such a cool look. I wasn't goth shaming, but she totally looked like Lydia from Beetlejuice.

Do they all still do that dance they do where it's like the, you know, they all get underneath the underpass and this one video of them doing that underpass karate chop video thing. And yes, the answer is yes. I've, that's because that's what I've done. I've boiled it all.

That's all I visualized. I can't Help it. Oh, yeah, actually, TVZ-E-On, that's a good point. Just announced today or yesterday, Tim Burton is working on a direct-to-streaming series about Wednesday from Wednesday Adams. Oh, no way. Animated or live action or what? Live action, I believe.

That's a good question. There's a Beetle-Jews 2 happening as well. He's busy right now. Is there really? Yeah. And Tim Brin's involved with the Beetle-Jews too? Yeah, directing it. Let's see.

Writer written by David Katzenberg, Seth Graham Smith, hadn't heard about that. That's cool. But we don't have a date yet. Or any kind of like confirmed casting. There you go. Live action.

Yeah, live action series, Tim Burton, Netflix. Wednesday, Wednesday show. Johnny Deppes reportedly had talks with Tim Burton about his Adam's family spin-off role. Huh. Maybe we get, maybe we end up with Johnny Depp on a TV show. That'd be fun. Not since 21 Jump Street. Not since 21 Jump Street. Yeah. Been a while. Anyway, the point is, what was the point? I have no point. I'm moving on.

Okay. All right. Nestle. You know, Nestle, they got the chocolate and the whatnot. Yes. Yeah. Well, they've created a vegan Kit Kat bar without any milk in it. So, all right. Vegans, listen up. I know we got a few here. Coming soon to a selected retailer near you,

a vegan version of the iconic Kit Kat candy bar. That's a mouthful. Switzerland's Nestle. Oh, I thought they were here. I didn't spell out its announcement on Monday. The exact formula for the new treat will be known as the Kit Kat V. Right? Wow.

Yeah. So you eat a rat as well, like a V. Dark chocolate doesn't have any milk in it, right? I mean, I know milk chocolate has a higher amount of milk, but is dark chocolate made without any milk? whatsoever or just a smaller amount of it. That's a great question. My wife loves dark chocolate and probably knows the answer to this, but I couldn't tell you.

I know that it's it, I know that for people that are trying to be off the shug, you are more okay to have dark than you are milk. That I know. Oh, here we go. So milk is a permitted ingredient, dark chocolate, but it is also one of eight major food allergens. Some dark chocolate products are made without milk as an ingredient. So, yeah, so the reason I ask is because I would totally dig a dark chocolate KitKat bar.

Oh, yeah. I'd probably have that, right? You'd think, and that's why this doesn't seem that surprising, right? Because that would have been vegan. Yeah. Maybe their way of doing this was a way to make it still seem milky, but without, with some substitute or something. Oh, maybe. Right, right.

So it's still kind of the milk chocolate flavor, but not. Oh, yeah, here it is. Kit Kat Dark Chocolate. You can get them on Amazon. Oh, I've never seen these, though. The packaging is like Jet Black. Oh, really? Yeah, look at these.

All right, I'm looking. If you do a search on Amazon. Oh, yeah, look at that. That looks like the, oh, yeah, that's definitely the Japanese. Well, that one, that second bag is Japanese, with the Japanese writing on it. Kit Kat, Dark Chocolate, Waifer Candy, Valentine's Day, 1.5. Japanese Kit Kat is.

so much better than... I know. What are they even doing over there? Yeah. I don't know. And it's not just the variety of flavors. Even the regular, plain old Japanese milk chocolate kit cat tastes so much better than our version of chocolate here. Yeah. What have we done? What have we done? What have we even done here in America?

I need a, I need a crate delivery service. Like, you know, there's the one called Tokyo treats, but I want one that's just kit cats like you get a box of eight kit cat flavors every month from japan i don't want any other any other things in there just kit cats just called the kit cat kit and uh the kit cat kit oh my god it needs that's perfect that's it right and just sell those and then you every month it's like oh this month they got the the spicy ones or the super sweet ones it's all fruit themed or whatever totally totally should do that you know what else there's so many Oreos now. They should do

Oreo boxes as well that are like a weird mix of all those crazy Oreo flavors. That'd be also a thing. Yeah, that would be good too. I can't eat any of this, but yes. I know and I think you know, I think the fact that you can't means that Mary is not sending any more to me either even though I can. I can't.

You know, Mary's like, I can't. Mary's like, well, it wouldn't be fair to send them just to Brian because Brian will come on and well, look, if Mary can find some non or some find some sugar-free solutions to the Oreo thing which are going to be real weird to taste we could at least try that

it's probably horrible right probably horrible yeah like is there a diet Oreo let's see well fins don't count let's see yeah there's I search and there's nothing no results

oh my god there it is TVZ gun my Japanbox dot com monthly kit cat box what why don't you get that you should get that monthly or three months six months 12 months it's 30 bucks how many it better come with a lot of freaking kit cats 30 a month 30 bucks a month or 30 bucks every three months or i mean basically every shipment is three months somebody called every shipment is somebody called japan box and tell them not to put the dollar sign after the dot nine that's obnoxious dude I hate that. I hate that.

So, I might sign up for this, at least to try it for a month and see. Because I'm curious about how many Kit Katz you get in here. Ooh, there's ghost waffle flavor. I don't know what that is, but it sounds really good. What's the dead waffles ghost? Diego Waffles that fall on the floor. Oh, look at this. I don't know, they had a Pokemon box. That's hilarious.

Yeah, what's in the Pokemon? Oh, it's a bunch of little Pokemon. Pokemon. Yeah. That seems cool. That's 59 a month. Jeez. I know.

I'm sorry. I'll go ahead and just call it 59.99S with a strike through it because that doesn't look at all the same thing. That's not how it works. All these are candies and things like a Pikachu candy and trinkets and crap. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. See, this is the thing.

Oh, here we go. Monthly three months, six months, 12 months, plans of ill. We also have a, oh, here we go. Tally Zarel. In the box, you can find products from Japan selected by our team with new and different content every month. Will they ever send you some porn? Oh, this one's not the Kit Kat. This one doesn't explain the Kit Kat box, though. They ever send you some manga porn in there?

Manga pornography. Let me get the manga porn box, please. You know what? I'm going to try this for a month. I'm going to, I promise I'll remember to turn it off. and cancel it before I get a second shipment, I promise I will. I swear that I will never forget. I swear that I will only get one box of these.

Yeah, you get the hentai pack, right? Oh, God. Should you come with tentacles? It's tentacle month, and we're going to send you some, you know, tentacle-related units there. Perfect. Yes, good. All right.

Well, good luck with this. If you do this, we're doing it. The show is going to benefit. Oh, so I can write this off as a company purchase. Oh, yeah, total tax write-off. Absolutely freaking literally. They said to hear that taste is a key factor in developing this plant-based chocolate. So that's what this is.

It's probably Zia or Steve Zeevier. So it's probably going to be more along the lines of the milk chocolate. Yeah, yeah. I would eat one. I'd try one. Oh, sure. Except I guess it's still got some sugar in it. Because vegans aren't.

They don't care about the sugar. They just don't want some animal product in there. I don't know. All right. Ready for this? Yeah. Okay. So the box $2999 sign.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Shipping $19.90. Dollar sign. Total comes to $49.89. dollar sign. Per month? Yep.

Per month. Nope. No. No? That's a AAA video game every month. No. Yeah. Forget it.

Forget it. Sorry. Deals off. I can live without this. Yeah, deals off. Deals off, Wade. No deal. 1999.

Are you kidding me? 50 bucks for nine Kit Katz? No, it's all right. Thanks. Like, if I was some rich idiot and had nothing to do with my money, sure. Right. But come on now. I bet I could make some arrangement with a Japanese listener or a listener living in Japan.

We have a few. We do have a few. And just make some, I will pay your time and effort and reimbursed your costs to do this, and I bet it'll be a lot cheaper than 50 bucks a month. Yeah. No, why not? Yeah. Well, let's see if we hear from somebody.

Email us, the morning stream at gmail.com. Help Brian continue to skyrocket his weight up into the stratosphere. One thin chocolate strip of a time. Which ironically is the thing that he lost the most weight for two years ago. Exactly. Well, now you got room. Look at it that way. Positive.

You got room. Exactly, yes. All right. We're going to take a break. When we come back, my sister, the therapist, professional and otherwise, Wendy Dunford, will be here. We're going to talk about being pent up. We'll explain what that means when she gets here. So that'll happen shortly, and we've got to play a song before we can do that.

So, Brian, you're in charge of that. What do we have? Yeah, this is cool. This is an alt pop artist named Sly Boy featuring Maggie Miles. This is a brand new song and video that came out today. He is based in Nashville. And if you do check out the video for this, the song is called Dead. If you check out the video for this, it's creepy and weird and David Lynchy.

And you don't quite know what's going on in it. But if you don't check out the video, the song actually has a lot of that in it itself. It sets up that really cool, mysterious atmosphere. Again, the song is called Dead. It's Slyboy featuring Maggie Miles. I think I'm going for Doing laps like a deader I want to feel better

Like me lost this weather I can't stay forever New pieces coming home. I don't need these stars, I don't need these stars in line. But I don't need your help Don't lapse like a deader I don't want to feel better Like we lost this weather

I can't stay forever Will you pieces come and go I don't make this first I don't need this stone I don't need this strong I'll make this

real stone down I'm In the dull, and commonplace of day-to-day-living, one thing stands out of a completely unique experience. The deep armhole is not only smart, it's comfortable too. The morning stream. Isn't there a tiger named Chester Cheetah?

All right. We're back, everybody. We've arrived. Back. Back where we were before. And it feels good. All right, we're going to get Wendy in. We're going to get that done.

And she's not online. So that's a little concerning. But that doesn't mean anything. Sometimes Discord says somebody's on and not. Don't you worry, Wendy with an eye will be here shortly before you know it. Don't you worry? Don't you worry, child. Oh, that's a song.

I know that one. Yeah. No, no, no. Look, you stick your head in here anytime you want. And then you go, beep, and we all stop. Hey, look at this. It's Wendy with an eye. My sister Wendy Dumford.

She comes on the show on Thursdays. We do a little therapy for everybody out there. She doesn't in real life all the time professionally. But you guys get it for free on Thursdays. And oftentimes it's your emails today. Not, though, because we're going to talk about a subject that I think is probably at the very least part of most of our lives. Let's put it that way right now. I'm trying to think of somebody who wouldn't be feeling this,

especially given just the recent week we've had with weather stuff in this country and other issues and the continuing pandemic and all of the rigmarole we've been going through. So we're going to do that today, Wendy. Yeah. Let's talk about it. So last night you said to me, we should talk about the baggage we're all carrying around with us right now. It's one way of putting it. In fact, your exact words were, hold on. the collective and individual grief we are all carrying around with us,

including all the varieties of ways that burnout slash exhaustion slash grief show up. I think that's a grand idea. Now, I'm going to ask you a question to start off with, though. Is one place that we carry that around a lot is in the middle of the night when we can't freaking sleep because gosh, dang it. I can't sleep lately at all. Like to sleep my life. It's horrible.

So is that a place? Is all my stress I'm carrying around? Is it just laying there in the bed with me? Is that what's going on? Yeah. Okay. Great. Well, that's it, everybody.

We'll see you next week. Problem solved. Thanks for you here. Problem solved. Where can people find you? Yeah, yeah. I can help just like that. Yeah.

I mean, okay. So let's back up a little. So I got a friend in Houston who is drinking water out of her bathtub that she fortunately filled up and is running. out of water and heat and I think just got some power so that's good um and I think okay it's so it's just not okay it's not okay to live like this right now right yeah um especially the build on it I think there was a meme that was like hey remember we used to read the book series of unfortunate events and now that's just our life is a series of unfortunate events

yeah and and so what I want to get to is this is that Okay, so her pair will come back on and she'll move on with her life and that's that. And no one, people might say, whoa, that was terrible or, oh, and that can be true of anything anyone's gone through in the last year, all the way to the experience of, so those who have lost loved ones to COVID or for any other reason, you know, we have grief in that sense where I think there's a bit more understanding from folks maybe that. Hey, you shouldn't quite be okay because you just lost someone. And though, you know, in good old American fashion style, you should definitely be back to work in two weeks. You know what I mean? We don't have any built in societal space or paid leave or stuff like that in any kind of acknowledgement of brief as something longer than a weekend. Right.

It's like we don't have it in a systematic way. We have it in spotty ways. Like you may work for a company who has a personal, you know, the CEO has a personal belief that it's important to give his employees the space they need or the, or whatever that is. But it's that one case and literally the building next to him is a task master who doesn't care what his employees think and they better be there or you're fired. Like it's it's just, it's a shotgun approach to to that kind of stuff that we have. But then you've got, I'm glad to brought that up because I think you then have the culture of. maybe your workplace, the culture of your family of origin, or the culture of your community, how they grieve is by extension how you grieve because that's what's modeled to you or that's

allowable or, you know, whatever. And so from all the way from a death to my friends drink in her bathtub water, there is stuff that is really hard that people have gone through and we're not sure what to do with it. And so we're going to talk about two things. today. One, what to do with it. And two, how it's showing up in sort of mysterious ways. So let's start with that. How does grief unresolved, unprocessed grief for the loss of all the many, many, many things people have lost or are missing or are longing to have again or whatever it might be, right? Which could be just basic seeing someone's face when you go out to someplace. You know what I mean? Like just some really, really basic things. How do you guys, I want to hear

what you think. So, Scott, you already gave one of your ideas, right? It shows up in the middle of the night. But how else does this kind of unresolved collective grief as well as individual grief? How does that sort of show up? Oh, man. Well, okay. So here's an example. for me, okay, I can't speak for anybody else. I'll just speak for me. I don't think I've ever truly dealt with dad dying very well. We've talked about this before in other context, but I don't think we've ever actually faced it. And so since the day he died, which came suddenly without warning and too early, I've had multiple times, maybe even a week since then, and he died in 2000. It's been a long time. Yeah. Oh my gosh. It's been 21 years.

Okay. That's crazy. There's probably not a week or a month that goes by where I don't think about what I perceive is the other shoe dropping. And it isn't necessarily me thinking, well, then it's going to be mom's turn. Although lately it's been, you know, I've been thinking about that because she's been through this surgery and, you know, all this high risk stuff. And it's at least been on my mind. But this feeling of like avoiding looking at it because I worry that if I look at it too hard, I'm going to witness. I'm going to see it's going to happen again and it's made it's compounded by all the loss that happens around COVID for example just one example but you know COVID's the most prominent

example but you know when I hear death counts or I hear some statistic about hospitalization mortality rates or whatever it is that all of that feels like that's just closing in on my desire not to look at it in the face you know what I'm saying? to avoid it at all costs. And there are times where that avoidance of mortalities, great questions and mortality's great realities, where I feel like at night in particular, my brain, that's when my brain says,

look, I got to get some of this out. So sorry, Scott, you're going to have a bad night because you've been penting this up for so long. Tonight's the night where we explode and do 50 weird dreams that make no sense that are super startling and annoying. and then you're not going to get any sleep as a result. So here you go.

This is what you get for avoiding it in your real life all the time. Like I really feel like that's happening with me, that cycle. And I don't know if it goes all the way to just back to dad and that's it. But it does feel like that was a moment for me. It's funny. People have these, you know, you have these moments in your lives where you feel like there was a pivot. Like there was this moment where you were like, oh, that's when everything changed. And for me, it's kind of that moment.

When dad died, it's the first. first time I really had to ever face that kind of mortality and have it happen in such a dramatic, sort of shocking, traumatic way so quickly that it just, I just never, I don't feel like I ever dealt with it for lack of a better way of explaining it. Like, I just sort of, I don't know, I just, I sort of stood there and took the blast, but didn't really assess the damage is how I would put that. Well, and it's your, it's your first. a rodeo with grief of that magnitude, right? And then what do you do with it?

Well, survival sort of instincts kick in, too, which is, I'm not going to just sit and feel this. Am I? No, I'm going to get extra busy, or I'm going to keep doing this or that. You know, like that. And even what you're saying is, you know, empathetic a little bit to folks who were just like,

is annoying and, frustrating it is that people still don't think this virus is real and that all this loss is made up or some crap like that on one hand this is just an extreme version of this right which is I just can't face this I can't I don't I don't you know there's it have to stare them in the face so you're you're hitting on this point of like reality and the brain the brain will do lots of things to not um to save you from harm its whole job this whole evolutionary purpose is to get you from getting killed and eaten and dying and suffering and all of those things and so it's got an interesting job and it does it in weird ways and so one of those ways is to avoid the full impact of

something um and so i talk to my clients a lot about this that you know when something traumatic happens to people. It's like a part of our brain gets sort of taken away and stored in order to save it, right? Yeah. And usually that part's very young when something bad happens. It can't deal with it. And then the rest of you moves on and lives your life. And you don't know much about what that part is doing. Well, that part gets triggered every single time somebody yells or maybe it was some kind of car accident or you hear or see or, you know, it gets triggered because that part has. stuck in that, is stuck in that place. So maybe you're saying there's a part of you that, you know, stuck the day dad died. And the other parts just have moved on.

And so then what happens is we're sort of fragmented a little as we go along, which is why I think we love the innocence of a kid, because none of this stuff has happened to them yet in theory. And then, you know, the reality is it will do its processing, whether you like it or not, and it's not the best choice. So middle of the night, processing, sure. Any other things? Brian, do you have any that you think of that are sort of showing up,

or maybe in you or others? Yeah, I mean, for me, it's kind of the same as Scott. It's restlessness or not being able to fully sleep at night, wake up regularly in the middle of the night, and have a hard time getting back to sleep. And it's probably a combination of just that pent-up, you know, stress of the situation, but also just regular stress. And there's probably an overall restlessness, not just a, not just when I'm sleeping,

but I have this need to just want to get out, even if it's, even if I'm just going through the drive-thru and getting some food, just getting out of the house for whatever reason. So that's, that's, that's pretty regular. I don't feel like I'm more irritable, well, certainly not more irritable than I normally am. I get really, I've seen this, Brian's like one of the least irritable people I know, which is something I admire. In my case, I think this is my problem. I let this stuff build up and then the irritability is palpable. Like I know, like last night, if you ask him, hey, was Scott irritable?

She'll say yes. I was totally irritable. And I was annoying before bed, which probably didn't help for me to have a decent night. And it wasn't even a, I didn't have a good reason. like other than I'm internalizing a lot of stuff like I have friends and some family in Texas and parts of the parts of the country that are suffering right now I have friends who are in like you know have COVID like there's all the all these things add up after a while and my way of dealing with is just sort of stewing on it sometimes right or or my outlet is this show sometimes like this is this is where we let some of this stuff fly And a lot of times we do it with humor. Sometimes that's helpful.

Sometimes it's, it's not. But like here on Thursdays, sometimes that's a great outlet for this sort of thing. But my irritability is like at an all time, an all time high. And I don't know why. Again,

think of it like leakage, right? So when your storage container is completely full, if it's, and you're shoving more in there, it's going to leak out. And it will leak out. in certain ways, right?

So irritability is a very common one, but most people aren't thinking it's that. So here's where identifying these other ways this happens can be really powerful because you are just thinking it's you or you're just thinking, well, I need this or that. And a lot of it is just, it's harder to recognize because it's leakage rather than as it leaks out, it says, hey, by the way, this is unresolved grief.

Maybe you could spend some time with me. Instead, it's like, oh, I want to kill it. everyone why or or other versions are just like obviously exhaustion yeah um you know suddenly freezing up like you can't do the stuff you like to do or want to do um just depletion overall uh you know obviously there's some some more clear ones like crying for no reason or anxiety is another way this shows up just like a flare of of feeling anxious um so it's it's like like there's this leakage and it's going to take whatever form it takes kind of based on you and how you operate. But most of us are not recognizing it as such. So if you're listening to this and you're

thinking, well, I'm irritable and I'm crying for no reason and I don't like doing the same things I usually do, then ask yourself why. And if you don't have any answers, then it's very closely, well, first of all, there's maybe something going on where you don't really want to see what it is and that's possible. I mean, I find that half the time I am listing for my clients, all the things that are going on for them to see it clearly and as a big deal because it's so incremental for them or they have their strategies to shove it down. But when you spell it out, it can be alarming.

Are you finding that they're not recognizing it themselves, that you have to describe these things? And they're like, oh, yeah, I guess that is, yeah, I'm having that problem too. Yeah, that's kind of an issue right now. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I feel like every person I talk to, I stop and just go, so how much of the pandemic are you feeling?

And they're like, oh, I'm not worried about that right now. I'm like, really? Okay. So let's talk about all these other things. And then we add an elephant on top of all of those other things, right? It's in every mix because society is not, it's not the same. Some things you could kind of just not think about. are things that now run, you run into and are stressors in maybe different ways.

And everyone's fuse is pretty short. So let's say we all have an interaction with Scott and he's irritable. He just transferred that to the next person, right? So there's another way this is happening. That's a lot, Scott. Thanks. Yeah, contagious. Well, I'm very contagious person. I caught irritation from Scott.

Well, also, there is a feeling of like, not one more thing, please, no more things. Yeah, right. That's how I felt last night. I was like, so I remember at one point, Kim says, oh, hey, I forgot to tell you something, something, bank, freaking CPA as a question, blah, blah, some tax thing. And I went, oh, my gosh, dude, freaking one more thing on my pile. Really? We're just going to jam this in here. This giant ball that's about ready to pop as it is.

We're just going to put one more thing in. And then, you know, I wasn't saying that to her. but that's how it made me feel. And it was minor. It was like, oh, he got a digit off on your EIN number from your W-9s or something. We just need to get him the regular number or whatever it was. It's like no big deal. Piece of cake takes me less than 30 seconds.

But it felt like one more thing. And it almost was like it doesn't matter how big that one more thing is. You could say the dog exploded or you could say, we need your latest W-9 number. way either way it's one more thing it all right it's the it adds the same weight to the pile even though right individually those things carry way different weights yeah it would almost be better i don't want this but it'd be better if the dog exploded because then that's a complete focus shift that would be me going stop everything else don't worry about anything else the dog is the priority she has exploded we've got to solve this now like there's i've always wondered

Well, the dog explodes, I think that's a self-contained problem and solution, sadly. It is. This is probably a bad example, but like. But actually, no, it's actually a great example because it's the power of obvious grief or something on fire, which we are built for. Right. So what we're not built for is this long-term chronic stress and, you know, cortisol being, is supposed to be released and then not released. but we are constantly dripping cortisol, which is what kills us early, right?

Like, we are not built for this. So those acute disasters are what we're made for. And then this longer term suffering of any sort is, it's really hard to balance. So maybe we can get into what to do with this. So, Scott, tell me how you're handling it. Brian, maybe share how you've handled something in the past where you can,

you're feeling burnout or you're feeling like the full weight of something and you do a little exploring and figure it out maybe neither of you've ever done this and then I'll just tell you what to do but let me know I was just going to say the hard this is brief the hard part for me is so much of what I do for a living and what I do for work is is has humor around it it's supposed to be fun and funny. And whether it's this show or it's comics or it's whatever it is, that's supposed to be a key ingredient. So when your mom's having brain surgery and your wife's going through a medical thing and

your wife's sister has stage four cancer and half the country shut down and there's a pandemic, then the challenge to make sure one of your key ingredients off to the side is always a big fat bowl of humor is really hard. or it's harder and that's where I struggle is because there are days where I just want to be I just want to feel miserable but I know I can't because if I want to get anything done that bowl of humor has to be included in my ingredients or I'm screwed and I so what I have to do is like convert some of that angst and stuff into humor and humor can be healing humor can be a way of you know what deprecating the situation

taking it to a place that's a little, you know, a little less edgy. And so I'm not denouncing that. I'm just saying there are days where it's hard for me to pull from that. And that is that, oh, I hate that feeling. I hate that feeling. There are times where I'm just like, I want to be funny today, but I really don't want to be. In fact, I kind of want to be miserable and I want to tell everybody how mad I am about this or that of the other thing.

And I want that to be enough. But I never feel like it can be because that's not the nature of what I do, if that make sense. Yeah, no one's coming here to hear you be serious and sad, angry. Why would they? I wouldn't want to. I wouldn't want to hear me being a bellyache. Of course. Right? Of course, which is, which is the challenge, right? And take any job, whatever is expected of you all the time, then feels like this same problem, right? So maybe your job is to be serious all the time and you're not allowed to not be serious or something, right? So it can it can go in any direction and whatever that thing that can be helpful in healing there's always the flip side to it that it's the cloak or this that will suffocate other things too right like you can use humor

that will mean you just bury grief forever right um and so you have to be careful with that but yeah okay but there are other times i should say where when i come on this this show in particular i may be thinking i'm going to have a really rotten day i'll come on here and we'll have a really funny, good time, and I'm better, like the day is better as a result. So I'm not saying that avoiding it is always, or how do I put this? Sometimes injecting that ingredient actually at least feels therapeutic to me. Whether it's long-term cloaking, I don't know, but sometimes it feels out way. All right, sorry, Brian, go ahead.

I'm sorry. Kids are about to ring the doorbell. I just watching these kids coming up the steps. They're about to ring the doorbell and ask if we want our, there it is. Ask if we want stuff shoveled. you want to get that shovel you want to get that shovel done just kidding i just want to act like i was all pent up angry about it um no for for me this is funny because um the restlessness yesterday surfaced in me sitting there with a lot of stuff i needed to do and me not like

basically me wanted to procrastinate and blow it all off and so it took you know it's basically kind of like when you're stressed out just kind of doing the yeah you know i'm going to write everything down that needs to be done. So I have a list. And if I've got something that I can focus on that's tangible and say one, two, three, done, that takes my mind off of any other pent-up stress or anything like that. It's like it refocuses it at something else. All right. Good job. Both of you. You both just describe dude wades of handling everything. dude ways oh good all right that's my book 150 dudeways your pain can't wait for this this will be good

no those are not not valid it's just do they actually do they meet any of the grieving needs do they solve the problem you're saying they don't you're saying they don't I think they don't and then we're not looking for problem solved that's what I just drink a beer Is that solve it? Is that a non-dud way of solved a problem? That's a perfect dude way.

I'm sorry. No, it's not gendered either, but it just, dude, it's a good word. Okay, so here's the thing. It's the accomplishment, do something, move into another space to, you know, it's like trying to just do more. It's trying to cram in more. Am I wrong? No, you're right. No, because that's what I accomplished is I don't.

did more and I took my mind off of things. Yeah. Okay. So here's the solution and this is what's so hard is that it is unappealing, right? I'm trying to sell, it's like trying to sell, sell the, I don't know, like the actual hard thing that helps us, not the easy, quick, fast thing, right? And people do struggle with this, of course. But what if you gave yourself a minute?

That's kind of why I was excited about us watching in and of itself together and discussing it is because there's some catharsis that came from something that different. I think we get a lot of good mojo from watching things and engaging in things, right? Like that's why it's so appealing. But I don't know, to kind of crack open the egg at least, at least Scott, maybe you were describing it that way, gave you a window to cry about some things. Yeah. I mean, I will, no, I'm just thinking about it.

If I'm watching that show, any, I'm trying to think, in fact, while we were watching it, I was, I want a show. I sound like a Utah guy. When I watched that presentation, I have to, sorry, this is a thing we do in Utah. My dad grew up calling movies shows, so it would be like, what did you think of Star Wars? Oh, it was a great show. he'd say. Anyway, that's why I said that. While I'm watching that, still, I can't stop. I had this question in my head that popped in and says, would I be reacting to this so emotionally

if I wasn't feeling all this pent-up stuff about division in this country and people's inability to see each other for who you are or unwillingness to accept you for who you are or whatever, you know, that stuff, I sort of asked myself that question. And I'm pretty sure I would have always thought this was cool and I would have always been somewhat affected by it. But I think that blew me out at the end, especially because of where we're at with stuff. That's what got me. And I think it's why it's resonating in general. I could be wrong. But I think that's why, you know, people really like it. So, yeah, I think the answer to your question is, I think I would have reacted to it in an emotional way prior to this, but not nearly as intensely as I did,

given, just sort of given the moment we're in or the moment I'm in. So that's an example of a leak that was given a spout, right? Like it was going to, it needs to come out and there is something that sort of motivated it to come out in a, in a quicker way, right? Rather than, oh, I'm feeling crappy. And again, the key here is that we have these simple. A lot of us can relate to these different symptoms. Like, I think one way this shows up for me is like, I will not have seen my kids all day because they're all online school or one kid is finally back in school and I'm working all day. And then when we see each other, my intention is just like, let's play a game or cook together. And then I want to kill them the second I start talking to him.

And I think, this cannot be good. Like, what is this? And it has more to do with, I am so depleted that the theory of being present and happy with them is not possible because I'm depleted. And so that can spiral into, well, I'm doing a terrible job or, you know, whatever. And now we're off to the races. When it's not really about those things, it's more about managing this emotional leakage myself and not expecting my kids to magically create a place where I'm going to have fun

because they can't do that. So what it would look like in practicality is to actually create a space for you to feel some of this stuff. So, for example, and that's why the show gave it, it was sort of a catalyst for a little of that. It would look something like doing this on purpose. So if anybody's listening to this show for 10 years, you've heard me say this at least once or twice, which is to schedule some time to grieve. And I do this with people who have lost loved ones because even then, even when the whole world can at least acknowledge that there's a loss and you can see that there is a loss, people will still not grieve. And so all the way from that to anything else we've been through, you, your family, your anybody to schedule some time to allow some emotions to come out. Or you wait until it explodes and leaks out.

That's the thing that tends to happen. what that would look like and this is people really love, hate this assignment because it is so effective and so strange. And that is to set assignment one hour for yourself where you're alone and you may have no idea what you need to grieve when you sit down for that hour. But you do a couple things. One is you create a mood. So maybe it's a song that calms you or is like evocative in some way emotionally for you and you play the song and maybe you light some candles or maybe you you're on a walk and you have no headphones on you're not listening to anything you're just looking at the stars or you know whatever it is for you where you can open the lid to this box a little bit

and writing is a great way to do this just start to write just think of the thing that has been bugging you this week and try to look underneath that thing and maybe where it's step from. You'll be amazed at how much will show up. What if the thing that's bugging you is very, what if you feel like it's super esoteric and you don't know quite how to define it? So in other words, like you're, you're sitting there and you're like, well, all right, I'm going to write about this thing. But the thing you're writing about is why do I feel existential anxiety about something I can't quite define? Like, you know what I mean? If that makes any sense? Because I hit that a lot, like where I'm like, I don't know what I'm even mad at here. I don't even know

what I'm frustrated or nervous about. Like I don't even know. And so, yeah, absolutely. And I think either the, the obvious thing will show up. It's not obvious. It will become obvious and it will show up and you'll know like, whoa, I didn't even realize I was so upset about that. Or what you could do is start with something small. So this is where existential dread is problematic in the tackling of it, right? Because it's so big. So you just start small with maybe one question or one thought and then recognize that this is not an intellectual exercise. This is what's tricky is we're using your intellect to get you to start the emotional process because what you've been doing is stuffing, managing, hiding from it, using all sorts

of intellectual processes to keep your emotional stuff canned. And so now we're just inviting the can to open using an intellectual process, which is writing and thinking through your week and letting something out. And then we want emotion to take over. Now there's maybe some of you who are like, oh, that'll never happen because all of those thinking parts are so rigid, they stop it. And so writing is maybe just as good as you're going to get on that first time. But if you set aside an hour a week for just your emotional well-being and exploration and openness, it might just be that you just need to cry. crying is incredibly therapeutic and it's hard to cry in front of someone else and usually you're

only crying in front of someone else because you've got to your very, very limit and then it spilled over. So it's more like this maintenance, emotional grieving session and it may just be that you stop and go, what have I lost this past year? And you pick one small thing that you just kind of miss. So this was, this is really weird. The other day I found, um, I came across. I don't have any idea why, but it was the Liverpool Street station in London in 2009. And it was a flash mob. And I got so emotional watching it. What were they doing? What were they? They're dancing. If you've seen it, it's where they just felt like a few people dance and then more people join it. And by the end, the entire floor is dancing perfectly in rhythm and you only know the people not in the dance mob have their phones

out everyone else who's acting confused suddenly joins in you know anyway i'm watching this and i am like i'm i'm blown away that all those people can be in the same place you know and i'm just having this like moment where and and how humans coordinate and like create something lovely and yes flash mobs have gone away and they started to get lame by the end but like what interesting human behavior and I just had this moment of like I kind of miss

well that's because they're doing the thing they're doing exactly that thing that I was just describing that I felt like in and of itself was doing or as Nicole calls it if and if when is that what she called it if and only if you could not get the name of anyway well was that feeling of like here is a not coordinated but here's this moment of like naked clarity and unusualness

that's happening in the middle of a thing that is unusual and not normal but also not traumatic and bad it's like this moment of like whoa we're all doing a thing right now together and it's massive and it's awesome and it's in the moment and it's in the moment right yeah that's a great way of saying it and so that's kind of that's what that flash mob reminds me of it's what um you know whenever you whenever you see something like um you know these deals videos are like on the subway like six people on the subway in new york are suddenly doing a coordinated freaking pole dance across the three cars like there's a yeah there was a recent one where it was a subway and people just started singing and all of a sudden it was like

the whole uh yeah the entire train starts singing you know what never mind that wasn't a viral video That was that Mr. Rogers' movie. That wasn't even a real thing. See, now you've got all your real things. It was based on a real thing, but that wasn't a thing that happened recently. But here's even like another version of that is like when the Germans and the Americans, that old story of the Christmas Eve, German and American soldiers all sing in silent night or whatever.

It's temporary. They're all going to kill each other tomorrow. Like, that's an extreme version, but it's still that thing, right? that moment of like pull us out of this of the normal out of the thing and show us this almost a miraculous thing yeah that's what that feels like so we had a question in in the chat from our friend cleo who asked all right well how are you supposed to open the the can as you describe it when you're terrified that when you open it it's something you won't be able to rain in and close or that you won't survive it if you if you open this thing as a really

great question. And this is every single human's fear. It is the most common thing I've ever heard from anyone or anyone I've ever met around the world. This is what they will say is, if I open this, it's Pandora's Box, right? We all believe our emotional lives are Pandora's Box. And there's a reason that exists is because that is a universal concern. And what I have found also universally is that the box isn't as big as you think. You have crammed it so full that it feels as if it's a bottomless pit, but it's not a bottomless pit. Now, that said, if we're talking your basics and you just open it a little, start to take some stuff out, it's like cleaning a closet. You take one thing out, figure out where it needs to go. It gets smaller and easier and

you can just keep going, right? So that's for most of us. Now, if you're hearing, this and you're just like, there's so much in there, there's no way to safely do that, then you need a therapist to help you do that. So, but I, but I really want to stress this. Even folks who like, they're just life, they thought was pretty great and they're emotionally healthy. And then like a recent client of mine got COVID and it had, she lost her taste, her smell, her appetite. And it put her into a serious depression and anxiety. which she'd never had before in her life. And she's now better from COVID.

She's not one of those long-hauled cases, but she doesn't feel the same, like something's broke. And so for her, there's not a lot we're unpacking, but she still feels like this might be a bottomless fit, right? Because she's never had to do it. So it's very recent and very new

and a very acute grief from, I just caught this stupid thing from a friend, and now I don't feel like myself. You know, that's a big loss and a lot of work there. But even all those, you know, so I get that everyone thinks they are the case where they must need a therapist because it's too scary. There are so many of us who don't need a therapist, we just need to attend to our emotional life a little better and do it incrementally.

But if you are really like there's a lot of skeletons down there, yeah, get somebody to help you talk through with that. And maybe one thing to try just on the first test is sit down, do all the things I'm saying, have a good cry, write a few things out. If you feel better, great. If you feel 10 times worse, then call a therapist, right? That's maybe one of the, it should relieve the pressure, not make it worse. Yeah, if it's making it worse, then that means there's a lot under there that needs to

be uncovered that is unwisely a little. Well, part of this, the very question she asked is one of the fears that you have, which is if I do take this, let's say they do your homework and do your hour of introspection, the fear is that you're going to unleash the beast and you won't be able to control the beast. But that's part of why you need to do the introspection to find out that it's not the beast you think it is and that you can do it incrementally and take care of it piece by piece. Like that, I know that fear. I definitely know that fear. Like that idea. The legitimate fear. Here's what I do know, though, is that our whole system is built for survival. And every single thing in there did whatever it did in order to

protect you. And though its protection may feel like the wrong choice and be really difficult, in the end, the system is designed this way, right? It is designed to keep you alive and healthy and safe. So when you say, oh, but I have suicidal thoughts, even those are protective. Suicidal thoughts are I want you to be out of pain, right? So you need a professional to help you to work with those thoughts and how to dig into some of those things. So please don't get me wrong about that. But I get that this is really scary

because you don't know which category you're in. So do it very small. Right now, if you're not seeing a therapist and you're just living your life and you're just feeling sad and this is hard and, you know, then you start, you spend one hour just giving yourself some attention, maybe start with 10 minutes, maybe start with 30 minutes or something, right?

And you feel like, oh, okay, yeah, I can't do this alone. Like, then stop. And that's okay. But for the vast majority of us, that fear is, again, protective, which is, wow, if I open this up, if I don't just keep working so hard. And often this may come from some family of origin conversations you've heard throughout your life, which is, we don't cry, we work hard, we aren't lazy, we do, you know, know what is your family's dynamic that means we don't stop and tend to our inner world and that may be what's stopping you and that's so you've spent a whole lifetime of shoving it down and in the end it's

it just needs to be gone through yeah yeah well i think that's a great question and and a very common concern well i'm going to try that our thing that sounds like and i need to be doing that anyway just a minute to like get away from everything but those kinds of thoughts and not feel like I got to fill every minute with something productive and yeah and be and well more importantly not seeing that is not productive like it could be the most productive thing I do um so I like it I like it a lot and for free hotel room we hope that was a long enough segment for you there bud I saw that too we got Bob's in the chat room today going this segment's too long well Bob I've missed you is all I can say miss having you in the chat. Yes, exactly. Also, I now own dudeways.com, which, uh, I

did. Did you really pick it up? I did. I really liked when Wendy said, okay, you guys have both described the dudeways of dealing with it. And I went, you know, a dudeways.com is a cool domain. Kind of amazed that dudeways was available. I was too. Yeah. How's that even possible? I was shocked. So, uh, anyway, I now own it. Who knows what I'll put on there. Maybe we'll make a side of, uh, all the dumb ways men deal with things. I don't know. Way to, way to handle, uh, stress by creating one more thing that you now need to maintain. Yeah, Brian, with my, with my, you know,

everything's piling up. I've got too much to do. I know what I'll do. I'll work on one more project. Yeah. Well, anyway. A monkey in your brain, right? Yeah.

He's in there all the time searching for domains. That's his plan. Yeah. The monkey. Anyway, good stuff. As always, Wendy, people should be ever checking out real steps.

org so that they can be part of whatever wave comes next. I guess right now you're in the middle of second or third way. We're in the middle and then we will start up again in May. So just put your name on the list and we will send you emails. Yeah. And not many. Just some.

I promise she doesn't. I get them so I know what these look like. They are not spam at all. And I hate emails. So I am very careful. Yeah. They're only ones that matter. So go check it out at real steps.org.

Have a great week, Wendy. And may your introspective hour be good as well. Bye now. All right. We did it, Ryan. Now, listen, the deal is we can't go on or be done until we play this mashup of British accents, okay? That's the deal. That is the deal. I am really, actually, I mean this honestly, when I said, I'm glad to see Bob. We were worried about him for a while. We didn't see him in so long. He was in the chat yesterday or the day before it too and dropped a bomb and then didn't respond to anything else. Like I said, oh, Bob, we get to see you and never heard back. So he's, it's like, it's like,

walk in and then walk out again. Leave a little fart and leave. He did it again because he basically hasn't said anything since he said this. The segment is too long. So maybe he took off because it was so long. I don't know. It's fine. We're just glad you're all right. Okay. Here's, uh, we're going to play this, uh, accent special mashup from TMS mashups. Jamie, this is for the British, uh, version of what we say. So enjoy this on this weird week of accent specials. Um, that was, that was good. Yes. Very, very satisfied. Oh, we're done. Okay, do you like my cigarette? Thank you.

Completely satisfied. Well done. Well done. Let me see that footage. I need to see... I need to see the heavily tattooed man swinging from a can. I'm the queen, Philip. Pardon me, governor. Mind if I, uh... Yeah, I'm scorned with that, uh, roadkill.

Yeah, might I put it in my boot? I should get a trophy or some prize for uncovering this beefy beast. I'm the first in Stroud to find one this big. Would you like a tin of biscuits? Yeah. I'd like to think. Can you put that biscuit up me bum? It looks like shortbread, but it's really a biscuit.

My boyfriend didn't use the condom before you shoved it up your nose. Where's the royal jelly? I had a bout of the shits. Oh no. I've had a bout of the shits. Philip, Philip, wipe me out. Are you right, Philip? Bring your ukulele.

All right, we're going to do Toot's Africa. We're no strangers too long. You know the rules and so do I. So do I. Philip. Harry, your owl has an angry inch. He's got a very angry, very small micro penis. Turn off that bloody noise.

Philip. I'd the girl power. Put it in the boots. Don't swallow it, Philip. Having slightly sarcastically tweeted earlier that the high-ups and news were all of a froth, so keen are we for good news, the BBC online have run the law. story, which was picked up by none

other than Steve Wright on BBC Radio 2 today. Mary Poppins, what are you, you flopped out your boob is, Mary Poppins? Philip, Philip, what is this dried disc on my hand, Philip? Philip, Philip. It's like a light blue reason stuck to my finger. Philip, would you remove it for me, Philip?

Is this a tiny condom? Philip, I don't want any more of your advances. I've told you this, Philip. Love, could you, uh, please, peel this banana for me. The one time we have an Australian, Brian does a British accent. Oh, he's a New Zealander.

Oh, he is an Australian. He's Australian. I thought he was a New Zealander. And it still wasn't a New Zealand accent. I love him. Because you peel his banana. Oh, man. The best part of these are, his choice of music are excellent.

They're so perfect for these all week. Well done. So well done, Tim, a smash-ups. Well done. Oh, my gosh. That was great. I do fill up way too often. I've learned.

I've learned that. Yeah. A little too much. It's a go-to, though. It is a bit of my go-to, you're right. All right, that was great. Thank you for that. And now we're done.

A reminder, though, that we do the PM. Oh, we don't do it this week because we got stuff. How are we doing this? Right. Brian and I are going to figure something out. We don't know yet. Yeah, we don't know. Yeah, I mean, we'll talk offline about tomorrow's schedule and maybe do something quick before, you know.

Yeah, we're thinking about morning possibly. We'll let you know. But so, okay, so BlizzCon line is happening for the next few days, two days. And so you're going to want to watch my Q&A on Saturday, watch the whole, we're going to do some live coverage tomorrow as well, but all this interferes with normal scheduling. So as a result, you know, Brian and I'll figure it out, we'll let you know. But do check that stuff out. It should be fun. Lots of stuff happening.

They didn't leak too much. That leak that happened, I read over it a little bit, it's really not that much. So plenty more to hear. There's more surprises to come, and not just in the other properties, but in World Warcraft as well. Yes. Yeah, it'll be great. So all of that's happening all weekend. That means no film sack.

That means no TMSPM, but we're going to try to maybe squeeze something into the AM or at the very least. Oh, you know what I just thought of? Sunday morning might be best for me. Maybe that. I could maybe do Sunday morning. Like a quick one in the morning. Hmm. All right.

Well, we'll figure something out and let you guys know what we're doing. In the meantime, head on over to frogpants.com slash TMS. It's got links to everything, including our Patreon, which we'd love you to support. I just put up this month's new art for those who are at that level. We're going to ship it out to people this week. Let's see. I did the, oh, yeah, I did an Among Us piece. It's called Suspect, and it's a dude, one of the Among Us guys, the pink one with bloody hands.

He's very suspect at this point. It's very sus. So anyway, that's the art going out. this month in both print and card form as well as avatars. If you're like, wait, you can get all that. Yes, you can. Over at patreon.com slash TMS, so go check it out. All right, Brian, we're done. Do you have a song? Okay. I do. Now, it's funny because

this isn't the song that I would have chosen personally. You know, I do tend to use the, I'm overruling the requester's choice and putting in something myself, but this time I'm not doing it. Adam, Jacob, wrote in and said, Greetings, Bacon and Sausage. Mmm. Sausage. I know I'm running late with my request, but I'm still too early to get a McFish sandwich. Anywho, my birthday is on February 18th, and seeing as I once again am stuck celebrating

in quarantine with the rest of you weirdos, I was hoping I could make a song request. At one of the last live concerts I saw, remember those? The Smashing Pumpkins covered during their shiny and so bright tour played a great cover of David Bowie's space oddity. I'd love to hear that if you've got it. Otherwise, another space oddity cover would be terrific. Thanks, Adam Jaco, Jammadako on Twitter. Sausage.

Yeah. Yeah, never fails to grow. I know it's not, but it absolutely sounds like. All the logic in the world tells you it's not, but there's something there. I know it's not. It is in here. Like it's... Weird.

Yeah, it's a weird effect. All right. So, now look, I would have chosen... It's February 18th. Perseverance is about to land on Mars in a few hours. So I would have chosen life on Mars. But apparently Adam Jaco's birthday is a god-awful small affair, and so we're just going to play this for him instead.

Space Audity. Now, I don't have the smashing pumpkins cover, but I do have a really cool cover that came out, God, almost 10 years ago. On Tangerine Dream's, I think, most recent album called Undercover, came out in 2012. Here's Tangerine Dream. Yes, sex on a, on a subway, with their cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity. See you guys soon.

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This is Ground Control to Mager's heart His reading made you pray And the babblest want to know Who's shirt you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule If you dare It says

It's a tongue to ground control I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in the moathing in the most peculiar way And the stars Look very different Today For here

Are you sitting in Far above the world Planet Earth is And there's nothing I've been You know. Though I'm past 100,000 months, I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to glow Tell my wife I love her very much she knows

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I fall to the world Let me do earth is you And there's nothing I can do You know, You know, I'm going to be able to be. This show is part of the Frog Pants Network. It's okay.